Episode 184 - Interview with National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins

Omeed sits down here with National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins at the 2023 Annual Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) Grantee Conference in Phoenix, Arizona on December 8, 2022. Collins spoke about the difficulties taxpayers and tax practitioners faced with the IRS in 2022. She also discussed how her office is working to address these problems. Since this interview was conducted, the LITC maximum grant, which was discussed here, has been temporarily increased from $100,000 to $200,000 per year, as described here on page 3 of the Low Income Taxpayer Clinics 2022 Program Report. Since this interview was recorded, Collins and her office also presented the National Taxpayer Advocate Annual Report to Congress, which identified several problems at the IRS and issued recommendations. You can read the National Taxpayer Advocate 2022 Annual Report to Congress here.